wow this changes my perspective. initially i thought she just wasn't speaking about it b/c she wasn't trying to make a big deal of things. now i see how neglectful her parents were. she had no one else to talk to but you. you listened to her and you should feel good about doing what what was in your power to help her.

Not to sound heartless, but I don't feel pain over it. I feel awful that she was treated the way she was, I feel bad for her foster parents when they found her, but it doesn't hurt anymore. It actually took me a long while to cope with this, but I've finally accepted there was nothing more I could have done.

That's not heartless at all. I lost a boyfriend to an accident/suicide (no one ever figured out for sure) and I've since married, had a kid, moved 5,000 miles away... And 8 years later, I'm still not okay with it. I wish I could be at peace with it and get on with life. I kinda envy you.

how incredibly sad... poor girl, abused by everyone, neglected by her parents, and then completely destroyed by one sick man. what a horrible fate. at least you brought some happiness into her short life, op. you're a hero for that.

OP goes on "recon missions" to stalk creepy man (which is, in itself, both stalking and creepy), but finds nothing

Creepy man takes friend home after parents call wondering where she is.

Friend starts skipping school and becomes distant from OP

Friend commits suicide.

Yes, it's a weird story. But, reading through comments like:

Goddam that sick fuck.

and

So he kidnapped her and then personally handed her back to her parents when he was finished?

or

I may be just a crazy vigilante, but I would try to find out what happened to the sick fuck. Learn some self defense and give him what for. If he got violent POW! Right in the jaw.

Is there any real reason or evidence to assume that this creepy man actually did anything except be creepy? Is it not just as likely that she skipped school and became distant because she was mentally ill - suicidal - rather than a victim of some sort of horrible abuse?